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Path to Fully Renewable Green Fuel Production Possible

A leaf-shaped Sn4P3 on a graphene-carbon nanotube matrix could help to pave the way for fully renewable green energy production.

25 Feb 2022

Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes from Supramolecular Gel

A novel technique for the controlled production of metal-confined carbon nanotubes (M/CNTs) has been published.

21 Feb 2022

Carbon Nanotubes Modified with Heparin for Use in Heart Valves

Novel research on advancing heart valves has included the innovative use of carbon nanotubes modified with heparin.

14 Feb 2022

Nanotube Films Open Up New Prospects for Electronics

Physicists from MIPT and Skoltech have found a way to modify and purposely tune the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes to meet the requirements of novel electronic devices. The paper was published in the Carbon journal.

11 Feb 2022

Nanotechnology Brings Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) Batteries a Step Closer

Cerium oxide nanorod-adorned carbon fiber derived from cellulose paper was manufactured and utilized as an interfacial substance for lithium sulfur batteries.

8 Feb 2022

ZIF-8 Nanofibers Enhance MOF CO2 Capture Capabilities

A metal organic framework channel for carbon dioxide capture with minimal impedance was built in a mixed matrix membrane with the help of electrospun nanoscale fibers.

7 Feb 2022

World’s First Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Fiber Achieves High Energy Storage Capacity and Strength

The research team led by Dr. Kim Tae-hoon of the Department of Functional Composites of the Composites Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS, President Jung-hwan Lee), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, succeeded in developing the world's first multifunctional carbon nanotube fiber which simultaneously achieves high energy storage capacity and high strength, together with the research team of Professor Yang Seung-Jae of Inha University (President Myung Woo Cho).

3 Feb 2022

Scientists Resolve Long-Standing Fluid Dynamics Mystery in Carbon Nanotubes

For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes -; pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick.

3 Feb 2022

Carbon Nanotubes Assembled in a New Way to Deliver Cancer Drugs

Fundamental science often finds applications beyond its original focus. Previously, scientists found applications for small diameter carbon nanotube porins in energy technology. Nanotube porins are tubes with walls just molecules thick that act as pores through the walls of a thin membrane of liposomes, a type of tiny synthetic particle.

31 Jan 2022

"In-Materio" Reservoir Device Allows Nanomaterials to Carry Out a Computation

A research group led by Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka and Prof. Hakaru Tamukoh at the Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Director: Hirofumi Tanaka), in collaboration with former Prof. Takuji Ogawa at Osaka University and Prof. Gimzewski at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has applied a random network of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT)/porphyrin (Por)-polyoxometalate (POM) composite as a reservoir computation (RC) device, a kind of artificial intelligence device.

27 Jan 2022